A fight is brewing over Myanmar's seat at the United Nations

CNN
Richard Roth and Caitlin Hu, CNN

March 3, 2021

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(CNN)The fight for control of Myanmar has now officially arrived at the United Nations.

In a letter seen by CNN, Myanmar's UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun has told the international body that he still represents Myanmar, after making an impassioned speech last week rejecting the country's military takeover.

Meanwhile, a deputy ambassador to the UN from Myanmar will claim that he is now the man the military authorities want to represent the country.

Both sides have sent the UN letters to make their case on official letterhead.

Anti-coup crackdown takes fatal turn

Bangkok Post

LARRY JAGAN
A SPECIALIST ON MYANMAR
PUBLISHED : 1 MAR 2021
NEWSPAPER SECTION: NEWS

Protesters run to contain tear gas fired by security forces in an attempt to disperse them during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon yesterday. AFP

Myanmar's security forces have unleashed a concerted crackdown on the country's peaceful protesters leaving 23 dead and thousands injured throughout the country in the last two days. In planned pre-emptive strikes, the police moved ruthlessly to disperse and arrest protestors preparing to join yesterday general strike. "They used teargas, stun grenades and fired live ammunition indiscriminately into the crowds," said Soe Soe, a young university student at a protest site told the Bangkok Post.

Down but not out

Bangkok Post
NEWSPAPER SECTION: NEWS
WRITER: ANUCHA CHAROENPO
PUBLISHED : 1 MAR 2021

NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained since Feb 1 but her whereabouts are still unknown. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)

Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) par­ty, and tarnished de­mo­cracy heroine of that country, hit the headlines on Feb 1 when she was arrested and deposed by the Myanmar military, aka Tatmadaw, in its coup.

Ms Suu Kyi along with other members of her party was accused of taking part in the Nov 2020 general election "fraud". Myanmar police have pressed several charges against her following the coup led by armed forces chief Min Aung Hlaing, including breaching import and export laws, and possession of unlawful communication devices.

ကုလသမဂၢဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္း NLD အစိုးရကိုသာ ဆက္လက္ကိုယ္စားျပဳ

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ဗီြအိုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
26 ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ၊ 2021

သံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္

ကုလသမဂၢဆိုင္ရာ ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္မိုးထြန္းက ဒီကေန႔က်င္းပတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီ လာခံမွာ NLD အစိုးရကိုသာ ဆက္ၿပီး ကို္ယ္စားျပဳေၾကာင္း ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။ သံအမတ္ႀကီးရဲ႕ ျမန္မာလိုေျပာ ဆိုခ်က္ အျပည့္အစံုကေတာ့ -

"မဂၤလာပါ။ ညီအစ္ကိုေမာင္ႏွမမ်ားနဲ႔ ေသြးခ်င္း ညီေနာင္ သားခ်င္မ်ားခင္ဗ်ာ၊ မိမိတုိ႔ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ့ စစ္ တပ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈခ်က္ခ်င္း အဆုံးသတ္ေရး၊ မိမိတုိ႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ သမၼတႀကီး ဦး ၀င္းျမင့္ နဲ႔ တျခား မတရားထိန္းသိမ္းခံထားရသူမ်ား ခ်က္ခ်င္းလႊတ္ေပးေရး၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အာဏာျပည္သူ႔ ထံျပန္ လည္ရရွိေရး၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီျပန္လည္ရရွိေရး နဲ႔ ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ဖယ္ဒရယ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု တည္ေထာင္ေရး နဲ႔ ဒီ အေရးေတာ္ပုံႀကီးေအာင္ျမင္ေရးကို မိမိတုိ႔အလႊာအသီးသီးမွာ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားအားလုံး စည္းစည္းလုံးလုံး ညီညီညြတ္ညြတ္နဲ႔ အတူတကြလက္တဲြေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတာကို အထူးေက်းဇူးတင္ရွိပါတယ္။

Why did the Myanmar military overthrow the NLD government?

The Daily Star

Mohammad Abdur Razzak
February 16, 2021

File photo of Min Aung Hlaing with Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: AP

Myanmar started its democratic journey in 2011 with a quasi-civilian government headed by the retired General U Thein Sein. Before becoming President, he worked as a member in the military junta's State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in 1997. Later, he was made the Prime Minister in General Than Shwe's cabinet (2007 to 2011). Ahead of the general elections in 2010, General U Thein Sein, along with 22 other military officials, were sent on retirement from the Army to form and lead the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). USDP won the majority in a controversially contested election in 2010. General U Thein Sein was sworn in as the 8th President of Myanmar on March 30, 2011.

Myanmar's ruling NLD party says military statement 'suitable explanation'

THE Star ONLINE  

Saturday, 30 Jan 2021

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy Party (NLD) on Saturday said it accepted a military statement on the situation in the country as a suitable explanation, after the armed forces said it would protect and follow the constitution.

Myo Nyunt, spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party, which won a November election in a landslide, told Reuters the party wanted the military to be an organisation "that accepts people's desire regarding the election".

(Reporting by Shoon Naing; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by William Mallard)

 

Link : Here

 

လူ႔အခြင္႔အေရးအေျခအေန တိုးတက္ေအာင္လုပ္ဖို႔ NLD ကို HRW တိုက္တြန္း

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ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
၀င္းမင္း
14 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021

 

NLD ပါတီ႐ံုးခ်ဳပ္ေရွ႕တြင္ ေအာင္ပြဲခံေနသည့္ ေထာက္ခံသူမ်ား။ (၉ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၀၂၀)

NLD အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြႀကီးႀကီးမားမား အႏိုင္ရထားတဲ့အခြင့္ အ လမ္း ကိုအသံုးျပဳၿပီး၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအေျခအေန ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ တိုးတက္ေကာင္းမြန္လာေအာင္ လုပ္သင့္ ၿပီလို႔၊ HRW ႏိုင္ငံတကာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖဲြ႕ႀကီးက ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကိုဖိႏွိပ္တဲ့ဥပေဒေတြကို ျပင္ဆင္၊ဖ်က္သိမ္းဖို႔နဲ႔ လက္ေတြ႔ ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မူေတြ ဆက္မျဖစ္ေစဖို႔ လုပ္စရာ အမ်ားႀကီးက်န္ေနေသးတယ္လို႔လည္း HRW က ေျပာပါတယ္။

AA ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖဲြ႔ ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့တဲ့ NLD ပါတီ ဝင္ သံုးဦးနဲ႔ တပ္မေတာ္သား သံုးဦး

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ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

01 ဇန္နဝါရီ၊ 2021 

 

AA ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖဲြ႔ ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့တဲ့ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္သုံးဦးနဲ႔ တပ္မေတာ္သားသုံးဦး 

AA ရခိုင္လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖဲြ႔ ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးခဲ့တဲ့ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္သုံးဦးႏွင့္ တပ္မေတာ္သားသုံးဦး။ (ဓာတ္ပုံ -တပ္မေတာ္သတင္းမွန္ ျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႕ - ဇန္နဝါရီ ၀၁၊ ၂၀၂၁)

Arakan Army blames NLD, UEC for election impasse

mizzima

By Mizzima
01 January 2021 

Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office

The Arakan Army and politicians blamed Myanmar’s ruling party and electoral authorities Thursday for the failure to hold elections in Rakhine State, as analysts warned that holding a vote will be critical to keeping a fragile ceasefire going into 2021, RFA reported.

Amid Fragile Ceasefire, Frustration Over Missed Election in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Radio Free Asia ( RFA ) 

2020-12-31 

People wearing face shields and face masks to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus queue to vote at a polling station in Rakhine state, Nov. 8, 2020.

 

Rakhine’s ethnic army and politicians blamed Myanmar’s ruling party and electoral authorities Thursday for the failure to hold elections in the war-torn state, as analysts warned that holding a vote will be critical to keeping a fragile ceasefire going into 2021.

After a violent 2020 in Myanmar’s westernmost state, Rakhine residents were largely left out of voting in Nov. 8 general elections, with only a quarter of the state’s registered voters able to go to polls after authorities scrapped the election, citing security concerns.

AA ႏွင့္တပ္မေတာ္၊ တပ္မေတာ္နွင္႔ NLD ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ တို့ အေရး

ရန္ကုန္ေခတ္သစ္
24 December 2020

 

 ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ မ်က္စိမွိတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ အေမွာင္ထဲမွာ ေဗဒင္ေဟာရသလိုပဲ။ တပ္က AAနဲ႔ ေတြ႕ေနၿပီ မူဆလင္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဆိုတဲ့ စကားလုံးကို စကားလုံးကို စသုံးတယ္။ ဆိုေတာ့ တပ္ကဘယ္လိုသြားမလဲ။ NLD အစိုးရက ဘယ္လိုသြားမလဲ။ ဗန္းစကားနဲ႔ေျပာမယ္ဆိုရင္ ရႊီးေနတာလား"

အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ တရား႐ုံးICJ က ၎တို႔ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ ၾကားျဖတ္အမိန႔္မ်ားကို အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္ ၿခင္းရွိ၊ မရွိေစာင့္ၾကည့္စိစစ္မည့္ ေကာ္မတီတစ္ရပ္ (ad Hoc committee) ကို ဖြဲ႕စည္းလိုက္ေၾကာင္း ICJ က ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႔က သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္သည္။ 

ICJ တရား႐ုံး ဆိုင္ရာ ဥပေဒ၊ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ားအရ ယင္းသို႔ ဖြဲ႕စည္းျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ယင္းေကာ္မတီတြင္ တရား သူ ႀကီး ၃ ဦးပါဝင္ေၾကာင္း၊ အဆိုပါ ေကာ္မတီက တရား႐ုံးက ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ ၾကားျဖတ္အမိန႔္မ်ား အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္ျခင္းမ်ားကို ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့လာျခင္းျဖင့္ တရား႐ုံးကို ေထာက္ကူေပးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ေကာ္မတီ အေနျဖင့္ ဘက္ေပါင္းစုံက ေပးလာေသာ သတင္းအခ်က္ အလက္မ်ား စိစစ္ၿပီး တရား႐ုံးေတာ္သို႔ တင္ျပမည္ ၿဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ လိုအပ္ပါက ဆုံးျဖတ္ ခ်က္မ်ားကို တရား႐ုံးေတာ္က ဆက္လက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ICJ ၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ AA ပန္ဆန္းတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြး

ဧရာဝတီ

နန္းလြင္ႏွင္းပြင့္
10 December 2020

၂၀၁၆ ခုႏွစ္က မိုင္ဂ်ာယန္ တြင္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ညီလာခံသို႔ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ေသာ AA အဖြဲ႕မ်ား / ဧရာဝတီ

တပ္မေတာ္ ႏွင့္ ရကၡိဳင္စစ္တပ္ (AA) တို႔၏ ႏွစ္ဖက္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားသည္ “ဝ” ျပည္ေသြးစည္းညီညြတ္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္ (UWSA) ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္နယ္ေၿမ ပန္ဆန္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၉ ရက္ေန႔ကေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္းႏွင့္ NLD အနိုင္ရသည့္အ ေပၚ ျပည္ပနိုင္ငံအႀကီးအကဲမ်ားႏွင့္ သံတမန္မ်ားက ဝမ္းေျမာက္ ဂုဏ္ယူေၾကာင္း ေျပာ

မဇၩိမ
14 November 2020 

ဓာတ္ပုံ - သက္ကို/မဇၩိမ

အေထြေထြ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပနိုင္ခဲ့ျခင္းႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) က အနိုင္ရသည့္အေပၚ ျပည္ပနိုင္ငံအႀကီးအကဲမ်ားႏွင့္ သံ႐ုံးမ်ားက ဝမ္းေျမာက္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ဂုဏ္ယူေၾကာင္း သဝဏ္လႊာမ်ား ေပးပို႔ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ၿဗိတိန္ သံအမတ္ႀကီး မစၥတာ ဒန္ခ်က္က “‌အေထြေထြ ေရြး‌ေကာက္ပြဲမွာ အနိုင္ရရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္တို႔အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဂုဏ္ယူပါတယ္။ မဲေပးသူ အေရ အတြက္ မ်ားျပားျခင္းနဲ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအေပၚ စိတ္အားထက္သန္မႈေတြဟာ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ လမ္း ေၾကာင္း မွာ အေရးပါတဲ့မွတ္တိုင္အျဖစ္ အထင္အရွားက်န္ခဲ့မွာပါ” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

Suu Kyi's party says it won landslide victory in Myanmar polls

FRANCH 24  

Yangon (AFP)

09/11/2020

A car carrying supporters of the National League for Democracy wave flags in front of the party's office in Mandalay Ye Naing Ye AFP

 

Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) said Monday it was confident of winning a landslide victory in Myanmar as official results trickled in following the weekend's coronavirus-disrupted election.

Millions lined up for hours to cast their ballots on Sunday -- only the second national election since the country emerged from outright military rule in 2011.

Aung San Suu Kyi expected to keep power in Myanmar election

The Guardian  

Rebecca Ratcliffe
South-east Asia correspondent
Sun 8 Nov 2020

‘Mother Suu’ remains popular despite coronavirus, conflict in Rakhine state and genocide charges

Voters wearing protective face masks line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Yangon, Myanmar. Photograph: Thein Zaw/AP

Voters across Myanmar have gone to the polls for an election that is expected to return to power the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains hugely popular at home despite allegations of a genocide that have destroyed her reputation abroad.

Queues of people waited in line, in some cases for hours, to cast their ballots on Sunday in the country’s second general election since the end of full military rule. Most were wearing masks as a precaution against the coronavirus. The country has confirmed more than 60,000 infections, the majority of which were reported since mid-August.

Rohingyas Brace For The Worst During Myanmar’s Election As Suu Kyi Takes The Lead

Transcontinental Times
By Tanbirul Miraj Ripon
November 8, 2020

The future of democracy and the fate of the Rohingya refugees hangs in the balance

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

MYANMAR. Yangon: The country’s general election took place today. Due to COVID-19, voting has been completed in accordance with health regulations. Because of this, voting is still going on in some areas. A majority of 322 seats are needed to form a government. The National League For Democracy (NLD) and the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) have received the majority of the votes so far. Early results show the NLD have already secured 13 Seats, with 33,677 votes, and the USDP with currently zero seats, but 12,133 votes.

A Sham Election May Be the ‘Nail in the Coffin’ for Democracy in Myanmar

WPR

Prachi Vidwans  

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020

Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, attends a ceremony at the National League for Democracy’s temporary headquarters in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sept. 8, 2020 (AP photo by Aung Shine Oo).

Myanmar is preparing to hold general elections this Sunday, an occasion that might have marked a significant milestone in its ongoing transition from decades of military rule. The previous polls, in 2015, saw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy finally win the presidency and a majority of seats in parliament, following the dissolution of the military junta in 2011. Hopes were high that Suu Kyi, who is now Myanmar’s de facto leader, would usher in a new era of peace and expanded freedoms. Yet the consensus today is that Myanmar’s democratic transition has stalled—if it can even be said to be transitioning at all.

ရခိုင္ပဋိပကၡ အရပ္သားဖမ္းဆီးခံရမႈ တိုးလာ

VOA

ဗြီအိုုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)

ကိုႏိုင္ကြန္းအိန္
04 ႏိုဝင္ဘာ၊ 2020

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္း ျဖစ္ပြားေနေသာ စစ္ပဲြမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္လာၾကေသာ ရခိုင္စစ္ေရွာင္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေတြ႔ရ။ (ဇြန္ ၂၉၊ ၂၀၂၀)

 

လက္နက္ကုိင္ ပဋိပကၡေတြ ျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ဒီရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္း ေဒသခံေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရတာ၊ ပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေသဆုံးဒဏ္ရာ ရရွိတာေတြ တုိးလာေနတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပပါမယ္။ ဗီြအိုေအျမန္မာပိုင္း သတင္းေထာက္ ကိုႏိုင္ကြန္းအိန္က သတင္းေပးပို႔ထားပါတယ္။

ရခုိင္လက္နက္ကုိင္အဖဲြ႔ AA နဲ႔ တပ္မေတာ္ၾကား စစ္ေရးတင္းမာေနတဲ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ေဒသခံေတြ မသ ကၤာလို႔ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရတာေတြ၊ ပစ္ခတ္မႈေတြေၾကာင့္ ထိခုိက္ေသေၾကတာေတြရွိေနတယ္လို႔ ေဒသခံေတြနဲ႔ လႊတ္ ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။

Timeline: Myanmar's Troubled Recent Past, Ahead of November 8 Polls

The WIRE
Poppy McPherson
30/Oct/2020 

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi casts an advance vote ahead of November 8th general election in Naypyitaw, Myanmar October 29, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Thar Byaw 

Yangon: Myanmar goes to the polls on November 8, 2020, in its second general election since the end of full military rule in 2011.

Here is a timeline of some key events in the nation’s recent rocky history:

Coronavirus and security issues cast a pall over Myanmar polls

DW
30.09.2020

Political parties in Myanmar are calling for the postponement of a national election amid rising COVID-19 cases. Continued unrest in the country's northeast also threatens to keep people from voting.

Political parties in Myanmar have urged the Union Election Commission (UEC) to postpone November's election, saying the "COVID-19 restrictions will hinder their election campaigns."

But the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has decided to go ahead with its election campaign on social media.